Have you ever either been the person or watched a person enter a room with a sleeping baby in it? Suddenly, voices lower, they slow down upon entering, drawing closer to that babe, trying to sneak a peek at the cherubic perfection but in such a way as to not startle or disturb the baby’s […]

My mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s last year. It’s moderate to severe at this point and though there are points where her memory is fairly ok, her ability to manage the day to day routines of life has been seriously impaired. This is compounded by the fact that she use to be my brother’s primary […]

Winter Solstice marks a time of year for turning inward, letting the year that has come before to come to a close and releasing it in order to rest, reflect and regain the nourishment we expended through the previous year. Now that we are into the Winter season and the rush of holiday events and […]

This week is quite busy for Jon and I. We are flying in from having spent the last 2 weeks with friends and family in two different states, in order to prepare and spend time with two other family gatherings that are about 400 miles apart. It’s a busy time, loads of running around, loads […]

A Winter Blessing For You I wish for you to feel the warm soft shroud of Winter’s cool darkness, no matter what climate you might be living in currently. That this shroud be a sense of internal safety, a call home to that place within you that has always been there. Safe, strong, healing and […]

Food (real) is at it’s core Life. It sustains, nourishes, perpetuates, enlivens. This is the gift of food. Food’s sustaining, nourishing and Life amplifying qualities go beyond the nutrients that feed our physical bodies. It extends to the pleasure of taste, the connection to the land the food came from, the choices and the beauty […]

A couple of years ago, I wrote about the practice of stewardship in the kitchen. It was coming from a place of discovery. Having resisted actually cleaning my kitchen or anything else for that matter, for most of my life, I was coming into the value of tending to that which is used to nourish […]

Many years ago, at least 3 life times ago, I was married. We were ill matched for a million reasons, and I married at a time in my life where I needed stability after the loss of my father. We married for the wrong reasons, even though the intentions were pure. Before I say more, […]